--- Day changed --- Log opened Sat Apr 08 23:59:03 2006 00:04 -!- Electric1lf [~dbharris@69.158.72.89] has quit [Quit: ] 00:04 -!- ElectricElf [~dbharris@electricelf.noc.oftc.net] has joined #linode-xenbeta 00:59 < warewolf> god 00:59 < warewolf> I stopped reading jwz's livejournal when his posts became NSFW 01:00 < taupehat> hehe 01:00 < warewolf> although, his "Dear japanese people: please stop exploring your sexuality. It scares the rest of us" post was rather amusing. 01:28 -!- JasonF [~jay@cialis.oldos.org] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 01:33 < linbot> New news from forums: Reboot: host51 in System and Network Status 01:36 -!- OvrLrd-Q [erwin@ip70-178-141-131.ks.ks.cox.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 01:37 < Spads> warewolf: lately his best running gag is when someone uses a mascot costume to do a protest or zoo security drill, and he labels it "level 5 furry outbreak in..." 01:59 < warewolf> hahaha 01:59 < warewolf> yeah I hate furries too. 01:59 < warewolf> especially ones who decide to post to bad_service in livejournal after they get kicked out of their local mall for wearing ears and a tail. 02:00 < warewolf> stupid teenager kid wears the shit to get attention, THEN IS SUPRISED AND APPALLED WHEN HE RECEIVES ATTENTION. 02:01 < warewolf> the fool after becoming instantly infamous for being an idiot deleted the post from the community, only to have it ressurected by someone else. 02:01 < warewolf> now whenever I see a post in any community with some fox/wolf/other/cainine animal lj icon I ignore it. 02:07 -!- OvrLrd-Q [erwin@ip70-178-141-131.ks.ks.cox.net] has joined #linode-xenbeta 03:01 < taupehat> zoinks 03:02 < taupehat> is slow eh 03:14 < OvrLrd-Q> aaah, i just watched a good movie 05:31 -!- OvrLrd-Q [erwin@ip70-178-141-131.ks.ks.cox.net] has quit [Read error: Connection reset by peer] 05:31 -!- OvrLrd-Q [~asdfasdf@ip70-178-141-131.ks.ks.cox.net] has joined #linode-xenbeta 05:53 < fo0bar> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/system/1U/1040/AS-1040C-8.cfm <-- caker 05:54 < fo0bar> Dear Supermicro: Please give me a 2U opteron SATA system. Now. 05:55 < fo0bar> oh, I just realized that URL was SCSI 05:56 < fo0bar> Dear Supermicro: SCSI is still lame. Has been for awhile now. 06:08 < mikegrb> ur mom 06:19 < OvrLrd-Q> lol 06:19 < mikegrb> lolz 06:35 -!- Marcel [~marcel@jharkema.xs4all.nl] has joined #linode-xenbeta 09:53 -!- OvrLrd-Q [~asdfasdf@ip70-178-141-131.ks.ks.cox.net] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 09:56 -!- OvrLrd-Q [erwin@ip70-178-141-131.ks.ks.cox.net] has joined #linode-xenbeta 11:43 -!- JasonF [~jay@cialis.oldos.org] has joined #linode-xenbeta 12:46 < linbot> New news from forums: Bridging between wired and wireless interfaces in Linux Networking 12:54 < taupehat> so 56 is feeling a bit sluggish... 12:54 < taupehat> not that anyone will be surprised by this 13:05 < TheFirst> ick horrible again 13:05 < TheFirst> load average: 1.42, 0.93, 0.78 13:11 < taupehat> aye 13:11 < taupehat> it's thrashola 13:11 < taupehat> =[ 13:11 < taupehat> someone just emailed me to say they couldn't get my webpage to load 13:39 < Spads> huh 13:39 < Spads> mine's sluggish, but it works 13:40 < Spads> 100% idle cycles, and a load of 0.90 13:40 < Spads> ew 13:41 < Spads> huh 13:41 < taupehat> yeah 13:41 < taupehat> mine is working 13:41 < taupehat> (I use irssi on my linode, so if my nick doesn't have a tailing underscore when I type, it's working) 13:41 < taupehat> I suspect that my friend hit the server when it was totally overloaded 13:42 < taupehat> hehe 13:42 < taupehat> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1501/history 13:42 < taupehat> those are mine 15:09 -!- Spads is now known as ExquisitePope 16:35 < linbot> New news from forums: Reboot Host 15 in System and Network Status 17:03 -!- OvrLrd-Q [erwin@ip70-178-141-131.ks.ks.cox.net] has quit [Quit: ] 17:36 < taupehat> argh 17:36 < taupehat> 56 is dogging again 17:54 * TheFirst tries to act surprised 20:05 < taupehat> christ, io is slow 20:05 < taupehat> anything involving disk is seriously throttled 20:13 < taupehat> caker: any notion as to how I can improve IO performance on 56? 20:13 < taupehat> it's gagging right now 20:19 < caker> yeah .. sucks -- can't seem to figure out why disk perf is so terrible 20:19 < caker> we're at 98% completed of the verify, so hopefully once that's done it'll speed up some 20:20 < TheFirst> right now it's unsuable....apache wont even respond 20:20 < TheFirst> a ssh login cause >1 load 20:20 < taupehat> verify? 20:21 < taupehat> you still bringing a disk online? 20:21 < caker> hard reset causes a verify 20:21 < taupehat> ahh 20:21 < taupehat> ok 20:21 < taupehat> tyvm 20:21 < taupehat> looks like you've got your hands full in the mainline UML right now 20:22 < TheFirst> what ya need is to point a large angry mob in the direction of the thrashers 20:22 < taupehat> agreed 22:10 < caker> disk performance better now? 22:12 * taupehat checks 22:12 < taupehat> no =[ 22:12 < caker> really? 22:12 < caker> # hdparm -t /dev/sda 22:12 < caker> /dev/sda: 22:12 < caker> Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.02 seconds = 23.86 MB/sec 22:12 < caker> usually when it's lagging, it's in the k/sec range 22:12 < taupehat> I guess a little better 22:12 < taupehat> still feels sluggish 22:12 < taupehat> but better 22:13 < taupehat> it took ten seconds earlier just to move a >1kb file 22:13 < taupehat> hrm 22:13 < taupehat> yeah, it's sluggish as hell 22:13 * taupehat is about to produce an example 22:14 < taupehat> me@taupehat:/usr/bin$ time ls -l 22:14 < taupehat> total 44178 22:14 < taupehat> 22:14 < taupehat> real 0m14.578s 22:14 < taupehat> user 0m0.000s 22:14 < taupehat> sys 0m0.070s 22:15 < taupehat> fair to say, sluggish? 22:15 < caker> taupehat: try again? 22:15 < taupehat> real 0m0.020s 22:15 < taupehat> what'd you change? 22:15 < caker> well, that might be cache 22:15 < taupehat> I'll try lib 22:16 < caker> I changed your the cpu sched 22:16 < caker> s/the// 22:16 < taupehat> me@taupehat:/usr/lib$ time ls -l 22:16 < taupehat> total 39113 22:16 < taupehat> real 0m1.846s 22:16 < taupehat> user 0m0.000s 22:16 < taupehat> sys 0m0.010s 22:16 < taupehat> way better 22:17 < caker> hmm 22:17 < taupehat> interesting reaction, but what does it mean? 22:17 < caker> dunno .. lemme change it for everybody 22:17 < taupehat> I hardly think you can leave my cpu scheduled higer than the rest of the node 22:19 < taupehat> so why would disk IO be so thirsty for CPU? 22:20 -!- Newsome [~sorenson@adsl-75-0-136-70.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net] has joined #linode-xenbeta 22:21 < taupehat> crikey. it's way better 22:26 < caker> still ok? 22:26 < taupehat> let me check 22:27 < taupehat> hmm 22:27 < taupehat> I'm out of uncached directories to enumerate that are big enough 22:28 < taupehat> unless you have any ideas... 22:28 < caker> hdparm -t /dev/sda1 22:28 < caker> er, hda1 for you guys 22:29 < taupehat> eh 22:29 < taupehat> I think I can safely say it's slow again 22:29 < caker> ok, lemme change something again 22:29 < taupehat> taupehat:~# apt-cache search hdparm 22:29 < taupehat> am still waiting 22:29 < caker> now? 22:30 < taupehat> slow 22:30 < taupehat> apt-cache search is proving to be a testing ground 22:30 < taupehat> as I know pretty well how fast it _should_ go 22:30 < caker> /dev/sda: 22:30 < caker> Timing buffered disk reads: 92 MB in 3.05 seconds = 30.12 MB/sec 22:30 < caker> huh... 22:31 < taupehat> I'm at least 30 seconds into apt-cache search hdparm with nothing output 22:31 < taupehat> whoah 22:31 < taupehat> finally =] 22:32 < taupehat> it's slow 22:32 < caker> mind installing/running that hdparm cmd? 22:32 < TheFirst> yes it is 22:32 < TheFirst> still high loads 22:32 < taupehat> I'm installing hdarm now 22:32 < TheFirst> not as high as earlier though 22:32 < taupehat> but god 22:32 < taupehat> it's really taking a while 22:32 < taupehat> heh 22:33 < taupehat> real 1m16.171s 22:33 < taupehat> that was apt-get install hdparm 22:33 < TheFirst> where you get those times from? 22:33 < taupehat> time command 22:33 < taupehat> pshew 22:33 < taupehat> caker you're not going to like this =[ 22:34 < taupehat> /dev/hda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 4.97 seconds = 412.33 kB/sec 22:35 < TheFirst> ooo i beat you :P 22:35 < TheFirst> Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 7.58 seconds = 1.32 MB/sec 22:35 < taupehat> hehe 22:35 < taupehat> you beat me in reverse 22:35 < TheFirst> yah ... buffer underflow...caused it to wrap around :P 22:39 < taupehat> /dev/sda1: Timing buffered disk reads: 168 MB in 3.00 seconds = 56.00 MB/sec 22:39 < taupehat> HEHE 22:39 < taupehat> that's my home machine 22:39 < TheFirst> beat me there 22:39 < taupehat> it's a gaming rig 22:40 * TheFirst 's home setup is in major need of upgrade 22:41 < caker> any improvement now? 22:41 < TheFirst> Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.44 seconds = 1.16 MB/sec 22:41 < TheFirst> in the wrong direction... 22:42 < taupehat> Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 3.89 seconds = 2.57 MB/sec 22:42 < taupehat> that's an improvement 22:42 < caker> ok, I'll continue the change in that direction 22:42 < caker> one minute... 22:43 < TheFirst> eww... 22:43 < TheFirst> Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 4.46 seconds = 459.23 kB/sec 22:44 * TheFirst glares at taupehat 22:44 < taupehat> Timing buffered disk reads: 12 MB in 3.44 seconds = 3.49 MB/sec 22:44 < taupehat> what 22:44 < taupehat> don't look at me! 22:46 < TheFirst> it's all your fault! :P 22:46 < taupehat> hah! 22:48 < caker> now? 22:49 -!- egatenby [~egatenby@itsb149.itsnpt.com] has joined #linode-xenbeta 22:49 < TheFirst> Timing buffered disk reads: 4 MB in 3.09 seconds = 1.30 MB/sec 22:49 < taupehat> Timing buffered disk reads: 10 MB in 3.36 seconds = 2.97 MB/sec 22:56 < taupehat> ooh, nice 22:56 < taupehat> Timing buffered disk reads: 18 MB in 3.04 seconds = 5.92 MB/sec 23:01 < TheFirst> stop stealing my read speed! 23:01 < TheFirst> Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 35.43 seconds = 57.80 kB/sec 23:01 < caker> heh 23:01 * taupehat has uber hax0rrz on TheFirst's linode 23:01 < taupehat> behold: 23:01 < taupehat> Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 5.06 seconds = 404.73 kB/sec 23:02 < taupehat> see? 8 times your speed! 23:02 * TheFirst feels confident his 57K will hold for a while 23:02 < taupehat> (ignore the paltry actual value there) 23:02 < TheFirst> don't worry, i will ;) 23:02 < taupehat> caker: you're having fun doing this, aren't you? Real geeks enjoy troubleshooting... 23:03 < caker> taupehat: I would if I could get some direction as to the exact problem 23:03 < taupehat> so you're kind of probing around to see what works, and what affects what, eh? 23:03 < taupehat> right now you've got us on the slow boat to fremont =] 23:04 < TheFirst> caker: *hint* read speed sucks ... make it higher :P 23:04 < taupehat> I do kind of wonder why my speeds are consistently faster than TheFirst 23:06 < TheFirst> taupehat: you should wipe the brown of your nose before you ask a question like that ;P 23:06 * taupehat has kicked TheFirst in the shins! 23:11 < TheFirst> now now, play nice 23:11 < taupehat> hey now 23:11 < taupehat> you're the one calling me a brownnose 23:12 < TheFirst> Lastlog: 23:12 < TheFirst> [10:11.56PM] < taupehat> you're the one calling me a brownnose 23:12 < TheFirst> End of Lastlog 23:12 < TheFirst> sorry you're the only one saying that ;) 23:12 < taupehat> 20:06 < TheFirst> taupehat: you should wipe the brown of your nose before you ask a question like that ;P 23:13 -!- alnr [~alan@cpe-69-200-85-107.nyc.res.rr.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 23:13 < TheFirst> i see no instances of 'brownnose' ;) 23:13 < taupehat> how quickly we forget.. 23:13 < taupehat> haha 23:13 < taupehat> well it depends 23:13 < TheFirst> i think you're imagining things 23:13 < taupehat> on how you define the word "is" 23:13 < TheFirst> how do you know i wasn't talking about chocolate? 23:13 < taupehat> ... 23:14 -!- alnr [~alan@cpe-69-200-85-107.nyc.res.rr.com] has joined #linode-xenbeta 23:19 -!- superbeef [~lane@doug.clipmediaservices.com] has left #linode-xenbeta [] 23:30 -!- egatenby [~egatenby@itsb149.itsnpt.com] has quit [Remote host closed the connection] 23:30 -!- Newsome [~sorenson@adsl-75-0-136-70.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net] has quit [Quit: Linux: Now with employee pricing!] 23:31 < taupehat> damn 23:31 < taupehat> it's getting thrashed 23:31 < taupehat> caker: are you rebooting it or something? 23:32 < taupehat> Timing buffered disk reads: 2 MB in 23.90 seconds = 85.68 kB/sec 23:33 < caker> I just finished some copies off it 23:33 < taupehat> oh 23:34 < caker> ugh .. it's panicking 23:34 < taupehat> whee 23:34 < taupehat> see you soon, I guess 23:35 < taupehat> rebooting how soon? 23:35 < caker> I'm thinknig seconds 23:35 * TheFirst waits for the ping out 23:35 < caker> it's freaking 23:35 < taupehat> omg! 23:35 < taupehat> now I'm freaking! 23:43 -!- TheFirst [gaveup@your.friendly.neighborhood.hellmouth.info] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 23:43 -!- taupehat [me@taupehat.com] has quit [Ping timeout: 480 seconds] 23:45 < linbot> New news from forums: Reboot: host56 (2006-04-09) in Xen Public Beta 23:52 -!- snorp [~snorp@CPE-65-28-73-215.kc.res.rr.com] has joined #linode-xenbeta 23:54 < snorp> host56 is my nemesis. 23:54 < snorp> or maybe it is caker's nemesis. 23:58 -!- taupehat [me@taupehat.com] has joined #linode-xenbeta 23:58 < taupehat> whee! --- Log closed Sun Apr 09 23:59:01 2006